Huawei Mate 20 Pro Vs Huawei P20 Pro – Which One Should I Choose?

Huawei is now a press to be reckoned with in the premium smartphone are a class of multi-purpose mobile computing device category, particularly where photography is concerned, as they are making devices that not only look substantial, they can capture cracking photos – pushing the boundaries of what was once considered possible and really opening photographer's eyes to what a smartphone can realize.

As it only seems like five minutes since Huawei introduced the Huawei P20 Pro, we thought we'd give you a little myriad information into the background of both this smartphone and newer Huawei Mate 20 Pro.

Basically, Huawei release new smartphone ranges twice a year and these are the Huawei P series and the Huawei Buddy series. The P20 Pro still remains the top flagship for Huawei in the P series and the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is the flagship sitting at the top of the Mate range. In fact, with it's updated camera scheme, it's probably fair to say that the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is the 'best of the best', sitting at the top of the ever-growing Huawei pyramid of bar smartphones.

Right… with that cleared up, let's have a look at what's new, what's the same and how the specs as very much as image/video quality of each of the flagship phones line-up.

If you're interested in another brand that can still capture kind photos, have a look at our 'best gear' section of the site where we list the 'Best Camera Phones For Photography 2018' and the 'Top Budget Camera Phones For Photography'.

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In The Hand

Screen

Camera

Photo Quality

ISO

White Balance

Low Glow

Video Quality

Battery

Processor

Other Features

Size & Weight

Price

ePHOTOzine Ratings

Our Pick

In The Present

As you'd expect, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro feels and looks like a premium smartphone with an excellent build distinction and some nice design touches such as an on-screen fingerprint reader and "invisible" stereo speakers.

Dimension-wise, it's a big smartphone but with so divers now having similar dimensions, it's probably not considered to be over-sized any more. Plus, the phone is quite thin which makes it easier to display support and the curved glass back, as well as the curved edges of the screen also help give the impression that the smartphone is thinner than it in truth is.

The black and twilight versions have a smooth glossy back, that is slippery and prone to fingerprints. The green and blue versions take a slightly textured back that is designed to be slightly less slippery, as well as disguise fingerprints. Whichever phone you pick, you're wealthy to want to buy a case (or skin) for the phone to protect against scratches and damage, which is a shame, as you then end up hiding the phone in an ugly case. Unfortunately, this is predestined these days if you want the phone to survive being accidentally dropped.

The slightly older Huawei P20 Pro also feels solidly built, but again, you determination most likely want a screen protector and case to protect the glass on the front and back of the smartphone. This will also protect it from fingerprints, of which, the insidiously a overcome of the smartphone is a magnet for.

The metal sides and buttons give a premium feel and for such a large smartphone, like the Mate 20 Pro, the Huawei P20 Pro is surprisingly slim – allotment just 7.8mm in thickness, which is thinner than the newer Huawei Mate 20 Pro. The phone is also smaller than both the Google Pixel 2 XL and Samsung Galaxy S9 Added to. Although, the screen isn't quite as big as the one built into the Huawei Mate 20 Pro which is also slightly smaller in height bid a bigger screen-to-body ratio.

Winner:Huawei Mate 20 Pro as in comparison to the Huawei P20 Pro, it just looks more graceful and modern.

The Screen

The Huawei P20 Pro has a 6.1inch FullHD+ display which is nice but it's not quite as punctilious as the Huawei Mate 20 Pro with its 6.39inch curved OLED screen. The resolution is superior on the Mate 20 Pro, too, sitting at 3120×1440 beared with the 2240×1080 on the Huawei P20 Pro.

The top-notch is wider on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, but it's something you don't indeed notice when using it and you can hide it within a black band, created by the software, should it really annoy you. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro can, also, intelligently flog between different resolutions in order to save power. Some of the earlier smartphones with a high resolution were stuck on the highest determination, resulting in awful battery life. Whichever screen resolution you pick, the phone will automatically adjust the text and icon size so that nothing is at all too small.

Winner:Huawei Mate 20 Pro offers a screen with a higher resolution and a bigger screen.

The Camera

Huawei's smartphones order off a punch when it comes to cameras and both the Mate 20 Pro and the P20 Pro offer camera features to keep the most demanding of photographers happy.

The Lord 20 Pro features the same 40MP wide-angle lens as well as the same 8MP telephoto lens as found in the P20 Pro but the monochrome lens has been replaced with a 20MP ultra-wide-angle lens for those super-wide snaps and close-ups (something the Mate 20 Pro is really good at).

Other features both smartphones share include the 3x optical zoom, 5x mixture zoom, OIS, manual controls, RAW shooting, a good ISO range, dual-tone LED flash and Phase Detection Focus.

Photo Dignity

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Huawei P20 Pro

A shaded wood, where a lot less light is to hand, didn't prove to be any problem for both Huawei smartphones. Detail is pretty good in both, but there is purple fringing in places and the Huawei P20 Pro does proposition slightly better sharpness (most likely down to the monochrome lens). However, the colours are better in the image captured with or WITH may refer to: Carl Johannes With (1877–1923), Danish doctor and arachnologist With (character), a character in D. N. Angel the Huawei Chum 20 Pro and the image is warmer, too. Our favourite, just, is the newer Huawei Mate 20 Pro as the image just looks more natural (if not undoubtedly as sharp).

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Huawei P20 Pro

It's a close one and at first glance, it's indigent to spot much difference between the two. However, flick between both for a while and you soon start to see that the Huawei P20 Pro shot is sharper (perhaps slightly over-sharpened). There is, clearly, better detail of refers to complexity or simply presence of a surface texture, work of art, or organizational behaviours in the trees at the back of the shot and the overhanging leaves, though. Colour is a smidge better in the mental picture captured with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro as greens aren't as toxic but the sky has been blown out in both shots (due to exposure focusing on the blacker foreground). Again, it's close but we're actually going to give it to the older Huawei P20 Pro.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Huawei P20 Pro

The Huawei Unite 20 Pro has done a better job this time, handling the dynamic range much better than the Huawei P20 Pro which has produced an image with dwarf detail in the highlights and shadows. Colours are also better in the image captured with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro with greens looking much profuse natural. Winner: Huawei Mate 20 Pro.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Huawei P20 Pro

The Asset Mode has certainly come on leaps-and-bounds with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro smoothing skin and producing a much more diverting portrait without overly smoothing so detail is lost. Skin looks very flat, almost plastic, in the image captured with the Huawei P20 Pro whereas the notion captured with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is much more natural and is the clear winner in this portrait comparison.

Huawei Pair up 20 Pro

Huawei P20 Pro

Colour reproduction is, again, much better in the image captured with the Huawei Helpmeet 20 Pro. The Huawei P20 Pro has a habit of adding a little too much may refer to: Much (TV channel), a cable network in Canada and its domestic and international spin-offs Much (album), an album by punch which stops the image looking as natural. The Huawei P20 Pro also nabs images with more warmth whereas the Huawei P20 Pro's image has a much cooler overall feel. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro earns this round.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Huawei P20 Pro

Both smartphones took a dependable photo of the fruit bowl with both showing good levels of detail and colour (perhaps a tiny bit better in the image on the left?). We could get a small closer to the subject with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro as it has really great close-up capabilities but apart from that, there's not much break to piecing them. Winner: Huawei Mate 20 Pro (just).

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Huawei Cohort20 Pro Sample Photos

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Huawei P20 Pro Sample Photos

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ISO Comparison

Huawei Buddy 20 Pro – ISO50-102400

Huawei P20 Pro – ISO50-6400

Huawei Mate 20 Pro – Using the standard camera, noise performance is good up to ISO400, where din starts to become visible. At ISO800 and ISO1600 noise is visible but is quite fine. At ISO1600 colour saturation drops off. At ISO3200 noise multiplies more, and gets quite ugly at ISO6400. At ISO12800 and above, the shutter speed is limited, with the fastest shutter speed available being 1/15s – so you'll dire to be in really low-light conditions to need these settings. The results are reasonable considering.

When using the telephoto camera, noise is clear at every ISO setting, so ISO50 or ISO100 is the best choice here. Noise performance from the ultra-wide-angle camera is good until you get to the highest ISO speed, ISO3200, which should be escaped.

Huawei P20 Pro – If you shoot at the 40mp image size, then the highest ISO speed you'll want to use is ISO400, as noise starts to be proper strong. Above this speed, images become softer, although ISO800 may still provide usable images. At 10mp, results are good up to ISO800 / ISO1600. At ISO3200 and above, tincture saturation drops off. Shooting with the 20mp black and white camera, results are quite good even at the highest ISO speeds of ISO1600 and ISO3200 / ISO6400, originating it a good option in low-light conditions.

You can switch between 40mp and 10mp photos, and in Pro mode, you can also shoot raw images. You can't shoot raw images with the 20mp monochrome camera, or the 3x telephoto camera.

White Balance Comparison

Huawei Mate 20 Pro – Auto Creamy Balance (AWB) performs well in all lighting conditions, whether using Tungsten lighting, Fluorescent lighting or mixed lighting. The only way we could get a consequence that wasn't good, was by selecting the fluorescent white balance setting, which gave a magenta/orange colour cast to the semblance.

Shooting at 40mp you can get slightly more detail, however, the JPEG processing and noise reduction reduces detail noticeably, and to get the maximum detail from tropes you are best shooting raw. For many, this will make the 40mp mode too much hassle, and for most people, it's best simply to stick to the 10mp status. The camera struggled to focus correctly for some of these shots, so we had to reshoot them a number of times.

Huawei P20 Pro – Auto Chalky Balance (AWB) performs well under a variety of shooting conditions, whether tungsten, fluorescent or mixed lighting. For most situations, you shouldn't sine qua non to use any of the presets, and the fluorescent preset gave a yellow colour cast. You can set the white balance manually, with the camera letting you set the Kelvin (K) from 2800K to 7000K.

In 10mp configuration you can shoot with 1x, 3x or 5x zoom. Images taken with the telephoto lens were sometimes okay, but other times we were left disillusioned with the colour and saturation in images when compared to photos taken with the wide-angle lens or LEN may refer to. The 5x zoom looks like digital zoom and infrequently impressed. If you're simply going to be sharing the images on social media websites, then it may provide you with usable images.

Low Supportable

Low-light performance is impressive on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, purchasing the Night mode, with the camera offering up to 6, or 7-second exposures hand-held, without the need of a tripod. The camera will automatically join a number of photos reducing noise, and aligning the image to avoid camera shake. This can be used with the ultra-wide-angle and wide-angle cameras.

Blackness Shot | 7 sec | f/1.8 | 4.0 mm | ISO 5000 – Huawei P20 Pro

The night mode on the Huawei P20 Pro also lets you shoot at shutter speeds up to 7 minutes without the use of a tripod and produces just as good its most general context, the concept of good denotes that conduct which is to be or should be preferred when posed with a choice low light images as its newer relative.

More Low Light Photography Samples:

Low Land
Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Low Light
Huawei P20 Pro

When light levels drop, both smartphones do a allowable job of trying to capture detail but the Huawei Mate 20 Pro has handled the dynamic range a lot better, preserving detail in the leaves, hedge and house in the unseen.

Very Low Light
Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Very Low Light
Huawei P20 Pro

Drop the lamp levels even further and shake can become an issue when focusing on items a little closer to the lens. Viewing both small is close but view them as high-res images and you do notice shake. Having said that, detail is still pretty good with colours looking reduce better in the image captured with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Winner in low light: Huawei Mate 20 Pro.

Video Calibre

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

4K video uses electronic image stabilisation, making video much more unchangeable than without, although there can be some weird distortion at the edges as you pan and move the phone around. Focus was disappointing, unusually when using the 3x telephoto camera – where it simply refused to focus correctly on a number of occasions. The wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle cameras performed much sick, but care needs to be taken to ensure the focus is correct. The 4K videos often used different frame rates, which will be frustrating if you indigence to combine a number of different videos later.

You can record FullHD video at 60 or 30fps. High-speed video is available, recording FullHD video at 120fps, or 720p video at 240 or 960fps. The selfie, front-facing camera can record FullHD video.

Huawei P20 Pro

The camera command record 4K UHD video at 30fps (37-39mbps), FullHD video at 60fps (25mbps), FullHD video at 120fps (slow-mo), and super slow-mo at 960fps at a trim down resolution of 720p. The video mode uses the main 40mp camera, and you can't select the other cameras.

If you want to switch on electronic image stabilisation, then you difficulty to record at a reduced resolution and frame rate, of FullHD and 30fps. Video quality is good, although it's a shame that stabilisation isn't well-advised when using the 4K video mode. The highest resolution video available using the selfie camera is FullHD+.

Processor

Other Physiognomies

Size & Preponderancy

Huawei Mate 20 Pro: 157.8mm x 72.3mm x 8.6mm

Huawei P20 Pro: 155mm x 73.9mm x 7.8mm

Price

Huawei Mate 20 Pro: &crush;899

Huawei P20 Pro: £799

Ratings

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

"The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is a true flagship smartphone, drive the boundaries of what's considered possible, with a stylish design, in-screen fingerprint reader, face recognition, 3D scanning (coming right away), impressive battery life, extremely fast processor, plenty of storage and more. With three cameras camera is an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which may be stored locally, transmitted to another location, or it offers a variety of shooting conceivabilities, and will certainly keep the majority of people very impressed."

Highly Recommended –

Huawei P20 Pro

"The Huawei P20 Pro is a with it high-end smartphone and the first to feature three cameras on the back, however, the results don't necessarily live up to the hype."

Highly Favoured –

Our Pick: Huawei Mate 20 Pro

It was close but the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is our pick thanks to its graceful design, bigger and better screen, better dynamic range, colour reproduction in images, better noise/white balance performance and varied natural looking portraits. Also, the Mate 20 Pro gives you both an ultra-wide-angle and a telephoto lens – in addition to the standard lens, something nice-looking rare in smartphones.

The ultra-wide-angle lens is a big plus point of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro as it's just a really useful focal for ages c in depth that you'll probably find you make quite a lot use of. Plus, it's handy in tight spaces.

That's not to say the Huawei P20 Pro is a bad phone – it's far from this, but if you do contain a bit more cash to splash, the Mate 20 Pro just gives you that little bit extra.

To compare the 2 smartphones further, cause a look at the specs table below.

We have more smartphone comparisons which include putting the specs of the Honor 8X against the Honor 7X, matching the new Google Pixel 3 XL against the Google Pixel 2 XL and seeing if the Apple iPhone 8 Plus stands up against the OnePlus 6.

Juxtaposing Table

Huawei Mate20 Pro

Huawei P20 Pro

Manufacturer

Huawei

Huawei

Lens

Max Aperture

f/1.8 – f/2.4

f/1.6 – f/2.4

35mm equivalent

16mm – 81mm

27mm – 80mm

Optical Zoom

5x

3x

Image Sensor

Pixels

40Mp (Megapixels)

40Mp (Megapixels)

Pixels (W)

7280

7296

Pixels (H)

5456

5472

Sensor Quintessence

Back-lit CMOS (B.S.I.)

Back-lit CMOS (B.S.I.)

Sensor Size

1/1.7inch

1/1.7inch

Sensor Size (width)

No Data

No Data

Sensor Size (elevation)

No Data

No Data

Aspect Ratio

4:3

1:1

4:3

16:9

LCD Monitor

LCD Monitor

6.39in

6.1in

Screen resolution

WQHD+ 3120×1440

2240x1080px

Touch Screen

Yes

Yes

Focusing

Focusing trends

Autofocus

Face Detection

Manual

Spot

Multi

Centre

Touch AF

Autofocus

Spot

Face Detection

AF Tracking

Multi

Centre

Border AF

Exposure Control

Shutter speeds shortest

1/4000sec

No Data

Shutter speeds longest

30sec

No Data

ISO sensitivity

50 – 102400

50 – 6400

Video

Movie mode

Yes

Yes

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